Member

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Grender, for Amendment 103, which would require the CAA to report annually on anonymised demographic trends among commercial pilot licence holders. I agree that workforce demographics are important to industry, Government and the CAA. However, as noted, the CAA already collects demographic information on commercial pilots and other skilled personnel to support regulatory decisions and identify trends. It publishes yearly data on licensed pilots, including commercial pilots, by age and sex, going back to 1994. Amendment 103 is therefore unnecessary, so I ask the noble Baroness not to press it, but she is welcome to join the same discussion on the future supply of pilots to which I referred.